Thomson Scientific is supplying journal literature information to The Patent Board for a study of scientific research trends on behalf of the US National Science Foundation.
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European Commission asked to support open access
18 January 2007
A group of European organisations are calling on the European Commission to support public access to the output of EC-funded research shortly after publication.
ebrary and YBP distribute e-books
17 January 2007
Provider of e-content services, ebrary, has partnered with YBP Library Services, which provide materials to the academic library community.
Bibliometric pioneer picks up lifetime achievement award
15 January 2007
Eugene Garfield has received the 2006 Online Information LifetimeAchievement Award in recognition of more than 50 years of dedication, leadership and innovation in the information industry.
Scientists are reluctant to join in with open peer review
15 January 2007
Nature’s authors and readers are reluctant to participate in an open peer-review process, according to a recent experiment carried out by the journal.
Crossref links to African and Asian journals
15 January 2007
CrossRef has reached agreements with three new partners to include hundreds of journals from Africa and Asia in its linking network.
New developments put pressure on search engines
15 January 2007
As Google and its rivals move into traditional research information territory, they could face challenges of their own. A new type of search engine is the latest project from Wikia.
Grant helps train developing-world librarians
15 January 2007
Elsevier has given the Medical Library Association (MLA) a grant of $80,000 to train librarians in the African, Asian, and Latin American continents.
Vista acquires SirsiDynix
15 January 2007
A private equity firm has bought library-management-system giant SirsiDynix. The buyer, Vista Equity Partners, focuses solely on investing in software and technology-enabled businesses.
UK PubMed Central is launched
15 January 2007
The UK version of the US National Institutes of Health’s open-access biomedical research archive has now been launched.
ScholarlyStats and Thomson Scientific announce successful SUSHI test
01 September 2006
MPS Technologies and Thomson Scientific have successfully completed the transfer of data between their two systems, using the SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) protocol.
Search engines have bigger effect on usage than open access
01 September 2006
Growth in online usage of Oxford Journal’s Nucleic Acids Research, a journal that went fully open-access in January 2005, is more linked to search engines than to the change in publishing model.
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